§79 为王负杌喻

(79) carrying chairs for the king

昔有一王，欲入无忧园中欢娱受乐。敕一臣言：“汝捉一杌，持至彼园，我用坐息。”

once upon a time, there was a king who wished to go to the garden named "free from care" for a good time. he ordered one of his ministers, "you'll drag a lounge chair to that garden for me to sit and take rest on."

时彼使人，羞不肯捉，而白王言：“我不能捉，我愿担之。”

the minister considered it a demeaning job for a minister to drag a chair. so he refused to do it and replied, "i would rather carry it on my back with a pole than dragging it."

时王便以三十六杌置其背上，驱使担之，至于园中。如是愚人，为世所笑。

then the king put thirty-six chairs on his back and asked him to carry them to the garden. such a stupid man was laughed by the people at large.

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